Trademark Disputes in Craft Beer Industry

New York Law Journal (June 16, 2016)

This article, by Jordan Greenberger, is about trademark disputes amongst breweries in the craft beer industry. A suit between an established New York craft brewer and a California start-up brewer over the use of the mark "Black Ops" illustrates the types of arguments that are often raised in such disputes, and the ability of a trademark owner to enjoin the use of a confusingly similar mark even when the infringing mark is used on the other side of the country.